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Saturday, June 6, 2009

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Kids get the coolest birthday cakes, don't they? And the younger they are, the more colorful the cake, it seems. Why, just look at this explosive bit of fun little William got to celebrate his first birthday:

Wow, it sure IS "fun to be one" when you have a tombstone for a candle! Yessirree, Willy, urine for a treat with this little number (two)!!

This does look kinda familiar, though. Huh. Now where have I seen this before....?

Oh, now I remember:

Well, if you're going to use the yellow and brown color scheme, you might as well "go" all the way, eh? A "royal flush" of cakedom for a real "whiz kid", if you will?

Caroline S. & Amy G., John and I are trying to eat better. This post may be our first step on the path to skipping many meals.

Thanks, you just made my diet easier today. And probably tomorrow, too. And probably every day until this post slides off of the front page. Ew.(Yes, I've been known to indulge in some cake after reading your blog.)

I work at a party store, and I can assure you that the "Fun to be one" candle by Amscan looks nothing like a tombstone in real life. That's just an unfortunate angle... they are, however, ridiculously bulky and not *that* cute to begin with!

And here I was, all ready to Pollyanna up the joint with "Maybe this is just a misspelling--maybe it was "Pooh" Year, and they just had a fondness for A.A.Milne, Christopher Robin, and the relentlessly twee...

But...no. There are.....DOOTS...on that cake. There is no way around this interpretation; those are very clearly meant to represent doots. And fellow Wreckerators, we have now discovered a rarity among rarities: a cake in which I could not be persuaded to indulge. I have fairly flexible standards, but by one principle I shall stand forever and always: I do not eat food items meant to represent body wastes. I don't and you can't make me, and also: frickin' EEEEEWWWWW!!!!

I know the woman who made the second cake; she rescues kittens and one day seven puppies unexpectedly fell into her care, so two friends of hers bravely stepped up and took care of the puppies, which involved (as she put it) "cleaning up Fort Poo umpteen times a day". So she made and brought them that cake to give them a laugh and thank them. :)

I made that cake for my friends Mary and Casey who took on the daunting task of fostering 7 young puppies. They did it with humor and grace - which is really what you need to do when you're cleaning up pee and poo nearly 24/7!

Their whole life was pee and poop those couple of weeks - the cake was a bit of humor meant to make light of the work at hand.

It was a cupcake-cake, and was quite tasty, even with highly questionable decorations ;)

--Kimberly Jennery(http://kimberlyskakes.com where USUALLY the cakes aren't so gross ;) )

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